(This article is Part-10 in a series; for Part-11, go here; for Part-9, go here.)
She would be the first woman President whose biological heritage is: India (her mother), and Jamaican-African-Irish (her father and his ancestors).
Kamala, like Obama, is mixed race. He’s not the first black President.
Of course, black activists have been saying, for a long time, that one drop of black blood means you’re black. That’s an interesting off-the-cuff Black Power fairy tale.
I could say one drop of white blood means you’re white. In which case, Obama and Kamala are both white.
What about “I identify as black”? Yeah, well, anybody can identify as anything.
I can identify as a person who believes life on Earth was designed to be full of beauty, love, conflict, pain, suffering, loss, in order to attract and glue souls to this decidedly limited set-up…and in the afterlife, souls/individuals may realize that and not come back for another go-around on the wheel, or they may just take the ride again with barely a moment of choice…and the next thing they know, they’re having their first conscious thought at age 2 in their new incarnation…
Oops. Wrong venue. For a minute I thought I was addressing a conference of advocates of Heaven plus atheists.
Anybody can identify as anything. A blonde blue-eyed lad from Nebraska can identify as black. A black man from Newark can identify as a white Nebraska farm boy.
The political propaganda around “the first black” is endless. It’s meant to prop up happy feelings across the board.
Now, Jackie Robinson as the first black man to break the color barrier in Major League baseball…that I can understand. I saw Jackie play when I was a kid. He was a star from the moment he stepped on the diamond at Ebbets Field.
Obama and Kamala—not so much.
Here’s a theory: